“We did name him after Vin Scully,” Cavnar said Monday. “We’re calling him Vin.”

Fans of the Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster Scully include Cavnar’s husband, a Dodgers fan who listened to Scully while growing up in Stockton.

Working as a Padres TV broadcaster from 2007 through 2011, Cavnar got to know Scully, who retired in October 2016 after 67 years as a Dodgers play-by-play broadcaster.

“I have so much respect for him, not just for who he is as a broadcaster, but he is a wonderful person,” she said.

Yet her admiration for Scully didn’t extend to Cavnar obsessing to become a play-by-play broadcaster, she said.

Much as when she worked Padres games, she was enjoying her role as a host on Rockies pregame and postgame shows, while also calling upon her previous experiences an in-game reporter.

Then, last month, arose an opportunity that Cavnar described as humbling: The chance to fill in for Drew Goodman, play-by-play broadcaster on Rockies telecasts.

She has called two games, joining a select group of women to call big-league baseball. Just the second woman to call play-by-play of a regular-season game on TV, Cavnar said that, “fascinating” and “fun” as the gig was, by no means was it as simple as moving from one microphone to the next.

She chose to play to her strengths.

“Not being trained to do play by play,” she said, “it was more, how can I take my personality, and what I know about the game, and how I like to talk about the game into the booth.”

After the April 23 telecast, it became more apparent to her how demanding the job was.

“My brain hurt — I was so exhausted after calling that first game,” she said, laughing. One of the new challenges she discovered: “You have to direct so much traffic.”

Her father can relate to her juggling act.

Steve Cavnar recalled with bemusement Monday that when he addressed youths at baseball clinics, his daughter would remind him of details she’d gleaned from earlier that he hadn’t yet mentioned.

She impressed him with “her enthusiasm for life in general and for sports in particular.”

Seeing sideline reporter Melissa Stark on “Monday Night Football” telecasts inspired Cavnar, then a youth, to view sports broadcasting as a career. “Wow,” she recalled thinking, “that’s a woman talking about sports, and I like to talk about sports. This is something I can do.”

Her dad told of his son coming home from Pepperdine at the same time Jenny was visiting from Colorado State. Hunting for the newspaper’s sports section that morning, the father queried the older sibling.

Attending about 10 Rockies games per season, in field-level seats on the first-base side, was a family event for Steve, wife Donna, Jason and Jenny. They were regulars at Broncos games as well.

A math teacher for the past four decades, Steve Cavnar said he’s hearing from teenagers — female and male — who would like to learn more about how his daughter became a broadcaster.

She’s a willing mentor.

On the flip side, she’s grateful to colleagues and family members who are helping her navigate a busy life.

“My husband is awesome,” she said. “He’s super supportive, and both of our families are really supportive. It definitely takes a village to raise a child.”

She added: “All of a sudden, you get this moment in your career that’s really a milestone moment. It’s really cool. At the same time, I’m trying not to spend too much time away from the baby. It’s definitely a balancing act.”

Cavnar will continue to host Rockies TV shows before and after games. While it has yet to be determined how many more games she will call, there’s a possibility Goodman will need relief again this month.